![]() ![]() ![]() He was also commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought in the battle of the Somme. ![]() His mother died when he was only twelve and both he and his brother were made wards of the local priest and sent to King Edwards School, Birmingham, where Tolkien shine in his classical work.Īfter completing a First in English Language and Literature at Oxford, Tolkien married Edith Bratt. Tolkien spent a happy childhood in the countryside and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen in his writing and his pictures. After his fathers death the family moved to Sarehole, on the south-eastern edge of Birmingham. Tolkiens Middle Earth should not be without this grand volume that tells the tragic tale of the struggle for control of the Silmarils, a struggle that would determine the history of the world long before the War of the Rer. Majestic!readers of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.will find THE SILMARILLION a cosmology to call their own.medieval romances, fierce fairy tales and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic overwhelms the reader. Tolkien (Author) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd January, 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, but at the age of four he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. Thinking of creating a website? Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. ![]()
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